“Dragon Tears” is not a novel for the timid. Neither is it for those searching for an easy read. You see, this horror novel by Dean Koontz, is slow paced and at times difficult to focus on. In it, you do find great and somewhat poetically descriptive writing. Yet sadly, the author concentrates too much […]
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In elementary school, the teacher taught the students to use adjectives and adverbs liberally in writing. If you look at the story of an average grade school student, you’ll find something a lot like this: A thin, blond woman spoke with a loud voice, and an angry tall, handsome man. This sentence is grammatically correct, […]
Havelock Ellis, a British psychologist and author, comments, “Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.” Despite historically being known as a recluse, American poet Emily Dickinson certainly did not reject life, in fact, pain and death are two topics that she often wrote about. In the literary […]
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The Haitian proverb, “Tout moun se moun,” we’re all human beings, radiates throughout and shakes the very core of the nonfiction work by Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains (Kidder 80). Paul Farmer, an extraordinary medical anthropologist who travels the world healing the poorest and most helpless of people, is brought to life in a simplistic […]
Middle school students may have outgrown the desire to color Leprechauns and rainbows on St. Patrick’s Day, but they enjoy celebrating the holiday in their own way. It is a wonderful opportunity to activate the imagination with writing prompts and writing activities designed with the Middle School Student in mind. Grades 6-8 (Middle School) Writing […]
As a personal fan of short stories, I started reading “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce with a positive attitude. What kept me captivated by Biercius was the way he wrote. Throughout the story, I couldn’t help but notice that short stories are pretty great with a theme; but it is worth […]
Edgar Allen Poe is a truly remarkable writer. That’s why I decided to analyze his short story “The Tell Tale Heart”. The very nature of the story is unique, with a great perspective of the story and an equally compelling sense of accurately portraying the crazy. The plot, the sequence of events, the simplicity of […]